William Henry KING

(1863-1949)

Senate Years of Service:

1917-1941

Party:

Democrat

KING, William Henry,
(father of David S. King), a Representative and a Senator from
Utah; born in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah, June 3, 1863;
attended the public schools, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah,
and the University of Utah at Salt Lake City; church missionary for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain
1880-1883; returned to his home in Utah and was elected to various
offices in the city of Fillmore and in Millard County; member,
Territorial legislature two terms; graduated from the law
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; admitted to
the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Utah; member, Territorial
council 1891 and served as president; associate justice of the Utah
supreme court 1894-1896, when Utah was admitted as a state into the
Union; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4,
1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the unseating of Brigham H. Roberts and served from April 2, 1900,
to March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900 to
the Fifty-seventh Congress and for election in 1902 to the
Fifty-eighth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1916; reelected in 1922, 1928, and 1934 and served from
March 4, 1917, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1940; served as President pro tempore of the Senate
during the Seventy-sixth Congress; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-fifth Congress),
Committee on the District of Columbia (Seventy-third through
Seventy-sixth Congresses); engaged in the practice of law in
Washington, D.C., until April 1947; returned to Salt Lake City,
Utah, where he resided until his death on November 27, 1949;
interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery.